How we’ve made those five minutes of our service some of the most influential—for kids and adults. I didn’t grow up with children’s sermons, and for my first five years of ministry, I never gave them ...

Cedar Grove Mennonite Church, Greencastle, Pa., Pastor Dennis Stutzman will give the message at the 10:30 a.m. service Sunday. The sermon will be from the book of Malachi. Sunday school at 9:30 a.m.

One day during the coffee hour after church I mentioned to someone that I enjoyed the fact that there were more children in worship than there used to be. “I think it’s important for them to be there, ...

“Now that I have preached about a dozen sermons I find I am repeating myself,” a young minister wrote despairingly in his diary in 1915. He was barely out of school and only a few months into his ...

NASHVILLE (RNS) — Colleen Reese was ticked at her preacher. Listening to the minister’s sermon at Franklin Christian Church, south of Nashville, she took exception when he began to criticize parents ...